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Joinery at Springvale

What is Joinery?

Joinery is a practical job that involves the creative skill of making things or joining things with wood.

A joiner is normally based in a workshop, but sometimes will be based on residential and commercial sites.

Common tasks involved in Joinery

Joinery is an extremely specialist skill, requiring a creative flair and having a precise eye for detail is key. Other skills that are extremely important to possess when considering a career in Joinery include;

Communication

Innovation

Organisation skills

Accuracy

Concentration

Normal tasks that joiners will complete everyday include:

Cutting and shaping timber

Formwork (Building founds of a building)

First Fixings in a building (assemble doors, door frames staircases, roof timbers)

Second Fixings in a building (installing door surrounds, kitchens, handles and locks)

Making and fitting of the interiors in shops, bars, hotels, restaurants, offices

Building and constructing stage settings for theatre, film, TV productions

More on this course

Springvale offer a variety of courses for those with little or no experience in Joinery and also for those who have experience but need a more detailed qualification to achieve career progression.

Health and Safety is a key theme whilst studying Joinery at Springvale, with a mixture of workshop learning and classroom theory throughout the course.

Tutors will guide you through various units and modules including;

How to produce wood working joints

Maintain and use carpentry and joinery hand tolls

Prepare and use carpentry and joinery portable power tools

What are the career opportunities?

There are a number of different roles that a Joinery qualification can lead to: